to shine, glitter
→
<cold steel>
2 realizations
Related shifts
| ID | Meaning 1 | Direction | Meaning 2 |
| NEW Realization 1 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Borrowing | |
| language 1 | Breton | |
| language 2 | Gothic | |
| lexeme 1 | mecet, micet | |
| lexeme 2 | meki | |
| meaning 1 | to glitter, to shine, to sparkle | |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | sword (Acc.) | |
| reference | ||
| comment | The Celtic word is possibly the source of the Gothic name for the sword and later for the Slavic word меч (Одинцов 1982) | |
| NEW Realization 2 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | Classical Arabic | |
| lexeme | ʔazrạḳ- | |
| meaning 1 | shining, glittering | zurḳ-u l-ʕuyūn-i tith bright, shining eyes |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | spear, arrow | min waḳʕ-i ʔazraḳ-a kal-kawkab-i ‘from the fall (hit) of a star like spear’ |
| reference | ||
| comment | Fischer 1965:47-55; the meaning of "shining" in a later period becomes "blue" | |